How to format your references using the Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Van Langenhove L. Global issues: Make social sciences relevant. Nature. 2012;484(7395):442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill RA, Barton RA. Psychology: red enhances human performance in contests. Nature. 2005;435(7040):293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman TC, Severson DW, Robinson GE. The Anopheles genome and comparative insect genomics. Science. 2002;298(5591):97-98.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chang L, Azzolin L, Di Biagio D, et al. The SWI/SNF complex is a mechanoregulated inhibitor of YAP and TAZ. Nature. 2018;563(7730):265-269.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Brigo D, Morini M, Pallavicini A. Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Faber C, Farkas G, van der Geer G, eds. K3 Surfaces and Their Moduli. Vol 315. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Henzell RG, Jordan DR. Grain Sorghum. In: Carena MJ, ed. Cereals. Springer US; 2009:183-197.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Third Branch Added To Present-Day European Family Tree. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. The Guaranteed Student Loan Information System Needs a Thorough Redesign To Account for the Expenditure of Billions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Amini B. Linear Matrix Inequality Method for Periodic Systems. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Greenhouse L. With O’Connor Retirement and a New Chief Justice Comes an Awareness of Change. New York Times. January 28, 2006:A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Abbreviation	Semin. Diagn. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0740-2570
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine